From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Question about the Reiser4 patch for kernel 2.6.38 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:14:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4F70EA37.1010805@gmail.com> References: <4F6EFC06.9020704@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F6EFC06.9020704@gmail.com> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ReiserFS Development List On 03/25/2012 01:05 PM, Edward Shishkin wrote: > On 03/25/2012 12:10 AM, Sandro Souza wrote: >> Hello my friends. : D >> > > Hi Sandro, > >> Firstly, sorry for my bad English (I'm just a brazilian newbie). >> >> Recently, I downloaded the 2.6.38 kernel sources, and I applied the >> Reiser4 patch for this kernel version (for Ubuntu 11.04 - Natty). >> >> But I saw that the file "page_cache.c" has the same change (Riffard's >> patch) showed in page http://linuxhelp.150m.com/jews/saboteurs.htm Folks, A convincing request to the owner of the web page above: this page insults the experienced developers. Please, remove this! Thanks! Edward. >> >> This left me worried. :( > > > This looks like very old complaints. > Reiser4 has been adjusted to some VFS changes, which > were really needed. It could happen that those changes > caused some local problems, but all they have been fixed > long time ago. > > I confirm that everything is OK in page_cache.c. > > BTW, as far as I remember, all patches of Laurent Riffard > were extremely useful. > > Thanks, > Edward. > > >> >> May you (Reiser4 developers) tell me if I can compile and use the >> kernel this way? >> >> May you tell me if that page is showing "unwanted" changes in the >> Reiser4 source code? >> >> Thanks in advance.